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Year 1 Vlog 12/02/21, by Mr Chamberlain
Date: 12th Feb 2021 @ 8:18am
F2 Friday 12th February 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 5:51pm
Hi F2,
Here are the activities for today:
Literacy – Literacy Shed – ‘Tuesday’
Recap over the story ‘Tuesday’ by David Weiner The Picture Book Shed - THE LITERACY SHED
Can you pretend to be another animal – where would you go and who would you be? Maybe your favourite animal. Can you perform an action as a new animal – can your family guess the animal?
Create your own version of the story with a new character and location.
For example: Pigs fly in the sky and go to the beach.
Phonics – Consolidation
Can you practise these phonemes with the caption action ‘j, er, w, ai, ee, igh’
Can you practise your spellings for this week. ‘it, an, not, put’. How many did you get correct?
Play some free blending games on Phonics Play or Phonics Bloom.
Maths – Money
Play the game: Pay with just one coin https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=payusingonecoinv3
Play a listening game with pennies and a jar. Have an adult choose an amount and drop that amount of pennies into the jar, can you close your eyes and listen for how many pennies dropped and guess the amount.
Then can you count out the coins in the jar and write the total amount e.g. 5 pennies in the jar is 5p.
Complete the worksheet on the School Spider.
PSED: Koala makes the Right Choice
Listen to Miss Kealey’s video of the story –‘Koala Makes the Right Choice’ on Tapestry (Memo). Talk about the importance of making the right choices
Key questions: Answer Verbally
- Have you ever made the wrong choice before?
- How did that choice make your/others feel?
- When have you made the right choice?
- What did you like about making the right choice?
- Talk about food choices here too (link to lunch times in school)
Draw a good choice and a bad choice and label it.
For example: A good choice is sharing toys. A bad choice is snatching a toy.
Wellbeing Activity: Read a story with someone at home.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
Today's Home Learning Friday 12th February 2021, by Miss Flynn
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 4:22pm
Good Morning Year 6!
We made it!! The last day of half term!!
To finish off this half term we would like you to complete the following;
Today's Tasks
Maths -
To name parts of a circle:
Key vocabulary:
- Diameter
- Radius
- Centre
- Circumference
Why is the centre important? What is the relationship between the diameter and the radius? If you know one of these, how can you calculate the other? Can you use the vocabulary of a circle to describe and compare objects in the classroom? There are more tasks oulined on SchoolSpider
English - Edit and improve your short story. You should have built up your story over the week and should now be ready to edit, improve and re-write. Once you have done this, you may wish to add a front cover and blurb!
RE- Continuing to look at the different parts of the Mass. Today will focus on 'The Gloria' and 'The Liturgy of the Word'.
Have a great day and enjoy your well deserved week off!
Happy Half Term!
Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Year 5 Home Learning Friday 12th February 2021, by Miss Welsh
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 2:14pm
Good Fri-YAY Year 5!
We’ve done it, we are on the last day of the half term! We all deserve a good rest but… before we finish today we would like you to complete a few more activities.
In English today, you are performing your limerick. Think about putting actions to represent your poem.
In Maths, you are looking at scaling down.
In the afternoon we have an art project, we would like you to recreate the ruins of the ancient Greek Parthenon.
Don't forget to go on the rockstars website (just let us know on the school spider if you need your log in). https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school. The battle is going strong, which class will be champions this week?
Have a lovely half term.
Miss Welsh, Mr Worthington, Mrs Scarisbrick, Mrs Daley and Mrs Barron 
Year 4 Home Learning 11/02/2021, by Mr Woodland
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 1:27pm
Happy Thursday Year 4,
Today's Home Learning tasks are in the login area and their is more detail if you watch below.
A new TTRockstars battle is also set up between the 2 classes, for you to use at home. Mr Woodland's class won last week.
We hope you are all doing well and just message if there are any problems.
Stay safe
Mr Woodland, Miss Barron, Miss Lee and Mrs Evans
CBBC YouTube Channel - free to subscribe to, by Mrs Harris
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 1:20pm
CBBC are uploading videos daily that are suitable for 5-11 year olds.
They have all the top CBBC brands on there, with a wide range of genres from factual shows, news, dramas, comedy to entertainment. Programmes like Horrible Histories, Blue Peter, Newsround, The Next Step, Saturday Mash-Up, Operation Ouch, the Playlist, the Dumping Ground, Heirs of the Night and Jamie Johnson.
They are also welcoming back Dani Harmer in the brilliant new programme My Mum Tracy Beaker.
Year 4 Home Learning 10/02/2021, by Mr Woodland
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 1:19pm
Happy Wednesday Year 4,
Today's Home Learning tasks are in the login area and their is more detail if you watch below.
A new TTRockstars battle is also set up between the 2 classes, for you to use at home. Mr Woodland's class won last week.
We hope you are all doing well and just message if there are any problems.
Stay safe
Mr Woodland, Miss Barron, Miss Lee and Mrs Evans
Year 2 Vlog 11.02.21, by Miss Hanton-Wise
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 10:37am
Home learning Jasper's Beanstalk day 4, by Miss Mclaren
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 9:28am
Maths
Warm up
Cosmic Kids Yoga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWowDC3x0hE
1.
We are thinking about positional language again today.
Practice makes perfect, so watch this video and then have a go at placing one of your teddies in the different positions and using the language to tell me where teddy is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWpz1xsk6js
2.
We are also thinking about the language of size.
Do you think you can make a beanstalk using your toys or things you find in your house?
Can you make a beanstalk that is taller?
Can you make a beanstalk that is smaller.
If you can’t make one, could you draw them?
3.
We are still working on the days of the week. Listen to the song of the days of the week again and have a go at trying to remember the order of the days of the week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJhRqVdAzRM
4.
Wellbeing task
Play hide and seek in the house. See who has the best hiding place.
Today's Home Learning 11.02.21, by Miss Houghton
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 9:16am
Good Morning Year 6,
Hope you are all ok!
It's almost Friday and it's almost half term!!
Watch today's video where the tasks of the day are explained.
Overview
Maths - Reasoning and Problem solving - Line Graphs. There is a worksheet uploaded on the school spider for you to work through.
English - Listen/Read chapter 14 and 15 of Journey to the River Sea- you can read ahead if you like as we need to finish before we return from half term.
Please read ALL of the information below…..
Today you are going to put the last three days’ worth of work together to write your own short section of the story.
You will start from when Maia took off her mask…
Art -
Create a South American Landscape using a medium focus of your choice (paint, crayons, tissue paper, and coloured pencils).
Make sure your piece is bold and bright. Think about how it represents South America.
Use the internet to find some inspiration for your own piece.
Have a lovely day!
Miss Houghton, Miss Flynn, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes 
Year 1 Vlog 11/02/21, by Mr Chamberlain
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 8:36am
Year 5 Home Learning Thursday 11th February 2021, by Miss Welsh
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 8:34pm
Good Morning Year 5 ,
Hope you are all ok and staying safe at home. We have uploaded a daily video explaining the activities further for you.
Keep uploading your work, it is fantastic to see what you are doing.
Don't forget to go on the rockstars website (just let us know on the school spider if you need your log in). https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school. The battle is going strong, which class will be champions this week?
Miss Welsh, Mr Worthington, Mrs Scarisbrick, Mrs Daley and Mrs Barron
F2 Thursday 11th February 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 5:32pm
Hi F2,
Here are today's activities:
Literacy – Literacy Shed – ‘Tuesday’
Recap over the story ‘Tuesday’ by David Weiner The Picture Book Shed - THE LITERACY SHED
Look at the characters in the video. For example: The man in the kitchen, the frogs etc.
Can you make a frog mask and act out parts of the story? Can you describe the frog? e.g green, slimy.
Can you draw a picture of one of the characters or a frog and write some words or sentences to describe them?
Phonics – Consolidation
Can you practise these phonemes with the caption action ‘v, sh, ch, z, ll, ff, ss’
Recap the caption action for the ‘ure’. Can you form this grapheme on paper?
Ask an adult to write some words containing the ‘ure’ sound and hide them around your house. Can you go on a detective hunt to find them and try to segment and blend them?
Maths – Money
Listen to the coins song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFzAU3u06Ps
With your role-play shop you made yesterday, can you give the different objects/items a price. Either find some pennies or make some out of paper. Can you use the coins to buy the items? Adults can you encourage your child and use language such as change, price, amount, coins, money, left over, expensive, cheap etc.
Thematic: What sounds can you hear in the Rainforest?
Can you make some shadow puppets of animals you might find in the rainforest. Can you find a torch and make the shadows move?
Have a think about animals losing their homes if the rainforest is chopped down, can you write a letter to tell people to stop cutting trees down?
Remember to write your full name at the bottom of the letter.
Wellbeing Activity: Make an obstacle course – how fast can you complete it?
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
Year 3 Home Learning Friday 12.02, by Mrs Bale
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 3:59pm
Year 3 Home Learning Thursday 11.02, by Mrs Bale
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 3:58pm
Year 2 Vlog 10.02.21, by Miss Hanton-Wise
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 12:46pm
Home learning Jasper's Beanstalk day 3, by Miss Mclaren
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 10:10am
Understanding the World
Warm up
Joe Wicks
1.
Look at the beanstalk in the story of Jasper’s Beanstalk on the story video.
Can you build a beanstalk using different things in your house? How tall can you build it?
2.
If you have any seeds, could you plant a seed and see how it grows?
If not, watch this video of a seed growing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECibetK2EYI
Explain that a plant grows from a seed, it needs water and light to grow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zvGv8yVE9s
watch this video above, this tells you about different parts of a plant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDjFZVqiLvY
The video above will help you to explain what a plant needs to stay alive.
3.
After watching these videos and maybe going to look for plants outside, can you now have a go at drawing a plant and talking about it’s different parts?
Key words to use:
Flower, leaves, stem, roots.
4. Wellbeing task
Enjoy colouring in some pictures together. Maybe you could add these to your memory box?
Year 3 home learning Wednesday 10.2.21, by Mrs McAlynn
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 10:09am
Good morning children! What a beautiful sunny morning it is! Here are your home learning tasks for today:
Maths: we are going to be looking at properties of 3D shapes and explore their faces, edges and vertices. We will also begin building our own 3D shapes.
English: today we are going to begin drafting our non-chronological reports about the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt.
Geography: we are going to be exploring some of the different signs and symbols associated with Egypt, thinking about what they mean and why they are important to the Egyptian people.
Have a fantastic day children! Mrs McAlynn, Mrs Bale and Mrs McGunigall :)
Year 5 Home Learning Wednesday 10th February 2021, by Miss Welsh
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 9:20am
Hope you are all keeping safe and keeping busy at home
We have uploaded a video explaining the tasks for today day. If you go onto the school spider to ask any questions you might have and you can also upload your completed work here. Also on the weekly timetable of work you will be able to find some links to videos.
Keep logging in for the time tables battle, the last one for this half term. Who will win this week’s battle?
Don't forget to take plenty of breaks and maybe try to do some exercise or get some fresh air.
Miss Welsh, Mr Worthington, Mrs Scarisbrick, Mrs Daley and Mrs Barron
Year 1 Vlog 10/02/21, by Mr Chamberlain
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 8:13am
F2 Wednesday 10th February 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 9th Feb 2021 @ 5:40pm
Hi F2,
Here are your activities for today:
Literacy – Literacy Shed – ‘Tuesday’
Recap over the story ‘Tuesday’ by David Weiner The Picture Book Shed - THE LITERACY SHED
Imagine you are a different character from the story e.g. the man in the kitchen. What do you think he might say about seeing the frogs flying?
Can you write a speech bubble about what you would say if you saw the flying frogs?
Please find a worksheet attached on the School Spider.
Phonics – Consolidation
Can you practise these phonemes with the caption action ‘th, oa, air, ng, ch, sh’
Recap caption/action for the ‘ear’ grapheme. Can you write it too? Can you write some words containing this grapheme? For example: dear, fear, beard.
Can you write the sound buttons underneath each ‘ear’ word.
Maths – Money
Recap the different amounts of coins and their value. Play the Top Marks Shop game https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money
Can you make a role-play shop? Can you decide on prices of objects, what is more expensive? What is cheaper? Can you write some price tags for items in your shop? For example: 5p for an apple.
Please find an example worksheet/template on the School Spider.
Thematic: What sounds can you hear in the Rainforest?
Listen to the story ‘Slowly, slowly said the sloth’ by Eric Carle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZX39Nc20Ys
Can you think of different rainforest animals that are featured in the story?
Can you create a big rainforest to save the animals using a variety of materials? What does the rainforest need? Tall trees, flowers, vines etc. using paper can you make a rainforest scene and add different animals to it.
Wellbeing Activity: Make up a dance routine or song
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
Today's Home Learning Blog Wednesday 10th February, by Miss Flynn
Date: 9th Feb 2021 @ 3:56pm
Good Morning Year 6!
We hope you are all ok and enjoying the home learning.
Today's Tasks
Maths - Constructing Line graphs and plotting the data given (worksheet uploaded onto the school spider). Make sure you give your line graph a title and label the X and Y axis.
English - Carrying on from yesterday you are going to be carrying on with writing your story. There is a worksheet on the school spider for you to work through. There is also two new sentence types to include so please look at the examples on the attached document on SchoolSpider.
Science- We are continuing with electricity and different types of circuits. Today's task will focus on parallel circuits..
Have a great day!
Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes 
Year 4 Home Learning 09/02/2021, by Mr Woodland
Date: 9th Feb 2021 @ 2:59pm
Happy Tuesday Year 4,
Today's Home Learning tasks are in the login area and their is more detail if you watch below.
A new TTRockstars battle is also set up between the 2 classes, for you to use at home. Mr Woodland's class won last week.
We hope you are all doing well and just message if there are any problems.
Stay safe
Mr Woodland, Miss Barron, Miss Lee and Mrs Evans
Year 4 Home Learning 08/02/2021, by Mr Woodland
Date: 9th Feb 2021 @ 2:53pm
Happy Monday Year 4,
Today's Home Learning tasks are in the login area and their is more detail if you watch below.
A new TTRockstars battle is also set up between the 2 classes, for you to use at home. Mr Woodland's class won last week.
We hope you are all doing well and just message if there are any problems.
Stay safe
Mr Woodland, Miss Barron, Miss Lee and Mrs Evans
Year 4 Home Learning 05/02/2021, by Mr Woodland
Date: 9th Feb 2021 @ 2:48pm
Happy Friday Year 4,
Today's Home Learning tasks are in the login area and their is more detail if you watch below.
A new TTRockstars battle is also set up between the 2 classes, for you to use at home. Mrs Barron's class won last week.
We hope you are all doing well and just message if there are any problems.
Stay safe
Mr Woodland, Miss Barron, Miss Lee and Mrs Evans